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Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
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The question you should be asking isn't, What do I want? or What are my goals? but What would excite me?
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What's the worst that could happen?
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
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If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
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To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
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I take notes like some people take drugs.
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Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
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Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
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I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
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One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
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